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		kelnos on May 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop Well, mounting the disk itself. If it was simple to get an image of the disk, the author could have used the same method to just get the files they wanted.

adastra22 on May 31, 2024 [–]

There are many different SCSI to USB cables out there, for exactly this purpose. Even the weird mini-SCSI interface used by Apple in the 90’s.

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